National Amusements Defends Dismissal of Paramount/Skydance Challenge
LiveVideo.AI Corp. is "wasting the Court’s time and the Defendants’ money" with its frivolous motion for reconsideration on Skydance Media's purchase of Paramount Global, National Amusements told the U.S. District Court for Southern New York on Wednesday.
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In September, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho ordered (docket 1:24-cv-06290) the dismissal of LiveVideo.AI's suit claiming that National Amusements, which was then majority holder of Paramount Global, ignored its rival bid to buy Paramount. He also ordered that LiveVideo.AI and its counsel to face monetary sanctions and an injunction to prevent the company from making further claims. LiveVideo.AI filed a recon motion citing legal errors in Ho's decision and new evidence that had come to light.
In its opposition to the recon motion, National Amusements and its president, Shari Redstone -- who's also a defendant in the LiveVideo.AI litigation -- said its submission ignores the filing injunction. The recon motion appears to have been written by AI, as it includes "undeveloped, bullet-point-style arguments, incoherent sentences, and -- most glaringly -- citations to several non-existent and hallucinated authorities," National Amusements said.
LiveVideo.AI has petitions pending before the FCC seeking reconsideration of the agency's approval of Skydance/Paramount (see 2508060007).